Otiosity

From Otiosity | Define Otiosity at Dictionary.com:

otiosity
o·ti·ose [oh-shee-ohs, oh-tee-]
adjective
1.
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
2.
ineffective or futile.
3.
superfluous or useless.

"If, as we have seen, the motif of divine otiosity after the labors of creation is older and more widespread than the particularly Israelite idea of the Sabbath, then Nils-Erik A. Andreasen is probably correct that Geneiss 2:1-3 is inteded to give a certain interpretation to that motif."

Jon D. Levenson, Creation and the Persistence of Evil: the Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence, chapter 8, "Rest and Re-Creation," p. 110

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